Contents

Summary

Skullgirls, a combination of the unique art of Alex "o_8" Ahad and gameplay genius of renowned tournament champion Mike "Mike Z" Zaimont, gives players control of fierce female warriors in an extraordinary Dark Deco world. As a fully featured downloadable title, Skullgirls brings back the open ended combo system and fast pace of classic, 2D arcade fighters along with a single player story mode for its all new cast of characters. High resolution hand drawn sprites, unequaled frames of animation per character, the first real time lighting system for a 2D fighter, a comprehensive training mode, and GGPO netcode all challenge set expectations for the genre. Variable team size and the choose-your-own assist custom Ensemble improve upon the older, sometimes forgotten innovations of other games. For high-level players, Skullgirls attempts to solve some common fighting game "features" with an Infinite Prevention System and unblockable protection.[1][2][3]

Speculative Characters

Several characters in the Skullgirl's universe have appeared in various forms as concept art, as background characters, or in forum posts and interviews from the game's designers. All of them could eventually appear as playable DLC characters, in story mode, or even as something never seen before in a fighting game.

Basics

Game Modes

Single Player: Select difficulty easy/normal/hard and beat up the computer.

Story: Play a single character through regular matches, additional cut scenes, boss fights, and an ending.

Arcade: Play a team of characters through regular matches, boss fights, and an ending.

Versus: A 1v1 match between two players.

Local: Versus mode between two players on one console.

Online: Versus mode with an opponent from the PSN or Xbox Live network.

Training: Learn to play here!

Tutorials: Missions, types, difficulty.

Practice Room: Play with infinite life and meter against a defenselessness practice dummy, adjust it's settings, practice combos with hit stun bars, and check out hit boxes.

Controls and Notation

Skullgirls uses directional inputs and 6 default attack buttons for gameplay. The six buttons are light punch, medium punch, heavy punch, light kick, medium kick, and heavy kick. All characters have standing, crouching, and jumping versions of their normal moves associated with the 6 buttons. Button and directional inputs combine for command normals, special moves, Blockbusters, and all other commands.

In character move lists, this guide will use the Shoryuken.com Wiki's default symbols to represent button commands. For written sections LP, MP, HP, LK, MK, and HK will abbreviate the buttons. Street Fighter series players may know these buttons as jab, strong, fierce, short, forward, and roundhouse, but those terms will not appear in this guide.

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LP

MP

HP

LK

MK

HK

For directional inputs, this guide will use the default wiki symbols whenever possible. For written sections, unicode arrows will represent the 8 vertical, horizontal, and diagonal directions. Many Street Fighter, King of Fighters, and Tekken series players use f, b, d, and u to abbreviate forward, back, down, and up directional inputs. Many Guilty Gear, Blaz Blue, and Virtua Fighter players prefer a keypad based notation to represent all 8 directions and neutral. Both are shown here for new Skullgirls players with experience in other fighting games.

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↖

↑

↗

←

→

↙

↓

↘

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ub

u

uf

b

f

db

d

df

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7

8

9

4

5

6

1

2

3

This guide will also use the Shoryuken.com Wiki symbols for directional motions required by special moves and Blockbusters. All of these commands are common to 2D fighters.

Symbol

Motion

A quarter circle forward (QCF), or a smooth motion between the down and forward directions (↓↘→)

A quarter circle back (QCB), or a smooth motion between down and back directions (↓↙←)

The dragon-punch motion (DP), or a tap forward before hitting down and down-forward (→↓↘)

The reverse dragon-punch motion (RDP), or a tap backward before hitting down and down-back (←↓↙)

The 360 motion, or a circular motion that hits all four axis directions in sequence (→↓←↑)

Universal Commands

The following techniques, allowing basic movement, defense, and offense, are available to all characters.